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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Act
Rising Action
Free Verse
Suspense
2. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Epic
Persona
Cliche
Climax
3. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Sestina
Alliteration
Tercet
Falling Action
4. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Point of View
Parable
Parody
Villanelle
5. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Understatement
Ballad
Caesura
Metaphor
6. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Recognition
Octave
Symbol
Falling Action
7. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Pyrrhic
Recognition
Narrative Poem
Scenes
8. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Internal Conflict
Complication
Imagery
9. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Audience
Rising Action
Theme
Setting
10. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Suspense
Sestet
Characterization
Sonnet
11. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Foot
Onomatopoeia
Fiction
Paradox
12. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Protagonist
Theme
Personification
Aubade
13. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Sestet
Audience
Understatement
Sonnet
14. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Elision
Exposition
Personification
Epigram
15. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Catharsis
Fiction
Comic Relief
Assonance
16. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Analogy
3rd Person (Limited)
17. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Comic Relief
Act
Ode
Mood
18. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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19. The selection of words in a literary work.
Falling Meter
Diction
Free Verse
Antagonist
20. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Catharsis
Epiphany
Symbol
Octave
21. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Motif
Reversal
Parody
Narrative Poem
22. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Situational Irony
Anapest
Allegory
23. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Protagonist
External Conflict
Subject
Stereotype
24. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Sestina
Imagery
Subplot
Falling Action
25. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Quatrain
Verbal Irony
Theme
26. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Falling Meter
Couplet
Elegy
Synecdoche
27. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Exposition
Convention
Allegory
Suspense
28. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Allusion
Trochee
Exposition
Voice
29. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Legend
Conflict
Dramatic Irony
Tone
30. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Foot
Allusion
Image
Protagonist
31. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Sonnet
Dramatic Irony
Assonance
Nonfiction
32. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Verbal Irony
Style
Reversal
Alliteration
33. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Apostrophe
Act
Cliche
Narrative Poem
34. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Denouement
Situational Irony
Dactyl
Oxymoron
35. The person who 'tells' the story.
Caesura
Analogy
Narrator
Falling Action
36. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Assonance
Exposition
Denouement
Folklore
37. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Syntax
Rhythm
Assonance
Analogy
38. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Pyrrhic
Connotation
Caesura
Syntax
39. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Theme
Mood
Octave
Audience
40. The organizational form of a literary work.
Structure
Elegy
Epic
Anapest
41. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Situational Irony
Oxymoron
Epic
Climax
42. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Tone
Tercet
Apostrophe
Elision
43. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Literal Language
Quatrain
Lyric Poem
Folklore
44. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Narrator
Character
Voice
Symbol
45. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Apostrophe
Situational Irony
Myth
Octave
46. The time and place of a story or play.
Foil
Setting
Allusion
Aubade
47. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Setting
Act
Scenes
3rd Person (Omniscient)
48. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Epic
Anapest
Oxymoron
Enjambment
49. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Assonance
Stanza
Plot
Satire
50. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Villanelle
Falling Action
Ballad
Elision